Dr. Leah Renold

Office: TMH-
Email: lr22@txstate.edu
Phone: (512) 245-2118



Leah Renold is a historian of South Asia who joined the faculty of Texas State in 2007. She offers courses focusing on South and Southeast Asian history and religion, as well as World Civilizations to 1500. Her academic background includes an MA in Asian Studies and a doctorate in South Asian History, both completed at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Renold researches the interaction of religion and politics in modern South Asia. In 2005 Oxford University Press published her first book, A Hindu Education: The Early Years of Banaras Hindu University, which explores the complex inter-relationships between Hindu traditions, Hindu-Muslim relations, education, and colonial policy during the Indian independence movement. Her current research includes work on the divergence of religious and secular interpretations of nationalism, myth as a means of knowing in South Asia, and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, a leading promoter of Hindu interests during the late colonial period. Dr. Renold has lived in India for over seven years and is currently organizing a study abroad program in India for Texas State. She is the advisor for the South Asian Students Association.

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